Improvement in dash-boards



.I. S. CAM PBELL.

Dashboards. N0. 141,758. PatentedAugust12,l873.

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UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

JOHN S. CAMPBELL, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT. I

IMPROVEMENT IN DASH-BOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 141,758, dated August 12, 1873; application filed February 17, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN S. CAMPBELL, of the city of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement in Dash-Boards for Wagons, Sleighs, &c., of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a face view, and Fig. 2 a vertical section, of my improved dash-board; and Fig. 3, a horizontal section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts of the figures.

This invention relates to a new construction of dash-boards for wagons, carriages, and other vehicles, with the object of making the same light, strong, and of elegant appearance; and the invention consists in making such dash-boards of India rubber, vulcanized to a proper degree of hardness, and combined with a metallic frame or plate, by which said rubber is held in shape and strengthened.

In the accompauyin g drawing, the letter A represents a frame of metal, or equivalent substance, made of suitable shape and size, according to the shape of which the dash-board is to be made. This frame is surrounded by,

and has its open spaces filled in, with India rubber, B, which rubber forms the body of the (lash-board.

Instead of the frame A, I may use a plate, perforated or otherwise, and apply the rubber thereto in substantially the same manner as I apply it to the frame. 4

The rubber surrounding or held by the frame, and filling the spaces between'the rods or parts of the same, is made either plain or 

